Wave breaking represents one of the most interesting and challenging problems for fluid mechanics and physical oceanography. Over the last 15 years our understanding has undergone a dramatic leap forward, and wave breaking has emerged as a process whose physics is clarified and quantified. Ocean wave breaking plays the primary role in the air-sea exchange of momentum, mass and heat, and it is o…
"The Weather Book" is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jam-packed with enlightening facts, practical diagrams and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form. It includes: weather systems - electrical storms, heat waves, hail, cyclones and the good-old British drizzle; weather tales - from raining frogs in Sussex, to ball lightning and sand s…
Introduction to the Modelling of Marine Ecosystems, Second Edition provides foundational information on the construction of chemical and biological models ? from simple cases to more complex biogeochemical models and life cycle resolving model components. This step-by-step approach to increasing the complexity of the models allows readers to explore the theoretical framework and become familiar…
This book is the first comprehensive introduction to the theory of equatorially-confined waves and currents in the ocean. Among the topics treated are inertial and shear instabilities, wave generation by coastal reflection, semiannual and annual cycles in the tropic sea, transient equatorial waves, vertically-propagating beams, equatorial Ekman layers, the Yoshida jet model, generation of coast…
This book presents the fundamentals of polarimetric radar remote sensing through understanding wave scattering and propagation in geophysical media filled with hydrometers and other objects. The text characterizes the physical, statistical, and electromagnetic properties of hydrometers and establishes the relations between radar observables and physical state parameters. It introduces advanced …
Adiabatic Invariants In Large-Scale Atmospheric Dynamics deals with the main principles of large-scale atmospheric dynamics on the basis of adiabatic motion constants. It can be considered as an introduction to the theory of quasi two-dimensional fluid motion concentrating primarily on nearly horizontal fluid parcel displacements in a stably stratified compressible fluid. A thorough mathematica…
This textbook is a first-look at radiative transfer in planetary atmospheres with a particular focus on the Earth's atmosphere and climate. It covers the basics of the radiative transfer of sunlight, treating absorption and scattering, and the transfer of the thermal infrared. The examples included show how the solutions of the radiative transfer equation are used to evaluate changes in the Ear…
Fundamentals of Acoustical Oceanography an important reference for specialists in acoustics, oceanography, marine biology, and related fields. This book also encourages a new generation of scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs to apply the modern methods of acoustical physics to probe the unknown sea. The book is an authoritative, modern text with examples and exercises. It contains techniqu…
This book presents the history of marine fog research and applications, and discusses the physical processes leading to fog's formation, evolution, and dissipation. A special emphasis is on the challenges and advancements of fog observation and modeling as well as on efforts toward operational fog forecasting and linkages and feedbacks between marine fog and the environment.
Modeling Atmospheric and Oceanic Flows: Insights from Laboratory Experiments and Numerical Simulations provides a broad overview of recent progress in using laboratory experiments and numerical simulations to model atmospheric and oceanic fluid motions. This volume not only surveys novel research topics in laboratory experimentation, but also highlights recent developments in the corresponding …
Fluid Dynamics provides an accessible introduction to the basic theory of fluid mechanics and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) from a modern perspective that unifies theory and numerical computation. Methods of scientific computing are introduced alongside with theoretical analysis and MATLAB? codes are presented and discussed for a broad range of topics: from interfacial shapes in hydrostati…
This monograph presents results of the analytical and numerical modeling of convective heat and mass transfer in different rotating flows caused by (i) system rotation, (ii) swirl flows due to swirl generators, and (iii) surface curvature in turns and bends. Volume forces (i.e. centrifugal and Coriolis forces), which influence the flow pattern, emerge in all of these rotating flows. The main pa…
Belajar kalkulus dirasakan sangat susah bagi sebagian mahasiswa di perguruan tinggi. Kendala utama karena pemahaman akan soal-soal sangat kurang. Buku sebagai penunjang pembelajaran yang ada di pasaran disuguhkan teori-teori dan sedikit pembahasan soal. Untuk itu, pada buku ini disajikan teori secara singkat dan diperkaya dengan soal-soal beserta pembahasan. Selain itu pada buku ini penguna dib…
Si Mega adalah maskot resmi BMKG yang muncul pertama kali pada tahun 2012. Si Mega merupakan sosok pahlawan yang tanggap dan siaga bencana dan juga memberikan informasi terkait meteorologi, klimatologi, dan geofisika (MKG). Selain berani, si Mega juga menggunakan kecerdasan dan teknologi untuk membantu masyarakat.
Hidrologi merupakan suatu cabang ilmu yang mempelajari keadaan air. Pengetahuan dasar meliputi Bab I sampai dengan Bab VIII, sedangkan Bab selanjutnya merupakan pengetahuam lanjutan. Pada edisi revisi pada Bab V ditambah dengan pembahasan mengenai hubungan curah hujan dengan limpasan, pada Bab VII ditambah topik penelusuran banjir di palung sungai dengan prinsip hidrolika serta penambahan lainn…
Buku dasar-dasar Meteorologi dan Klimatologi untuk pendidikan Geografi disusun berdasarkan teori-teori, hasil-hasil penelitian dan fenomena-fenomena meteorologi-klimatologis. Selain itu materi dalam buku ini juga telah disesuaikan dengan kurikulum pendidikan menengah di Indonesia. Oleh karena itu, materi dalam buku ini sangat bermanfaat untuk menintgkatkan pemahaman Pendidikan geografi yang mel…
Pengelolaan DAS adalah suatu proses formulasi dan implementasi kegiatan atau program yang bersifat menipulasi sumber daya alam dan manusia yang terdapat di daerah aliran sungai untuk memperoleh manfaat produksi dan jasa tanpa menyebabkan terjadinya kerusakan sumber daya air dan tanah. Kegiatan yang dilakukan adalah identifikasi keterkaitan antara penggunaan lahan, tanah dan air, serta keterkait…
Buku ini berisi tentang algoritma-algoritma dasa dengan menggunakan bahasa pemrograman C++ Materi yang terdapat dalam buku ini wajib diketahui bagi anda yang ingin berkecimpung dalam dunia pemrograman komputer. Dengan mempelajari seluruh bagian dari buku ini, anda akan diajak untuk mengetahui teknik pemrograman dan algoritma dai NOL. Materi yang dibahas mulai dari pengenalan operator dan logika…